DPS Offers $3,000 Reward for Most Wanted Sex Offender, Recent Escapee

By alitton

Created Nov 7 2013 - 10:59am

Thursday, November 7, 2013 - 10:59am

Austin, TX (DPS) — The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has added Kevin Patrick Stoeser, 40, to the Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders list, and a cash reward of up to $3,000 is now being offered for information leading to his capture. Stoeser has a violent criminal past and is wanted for escape from federal supervision and failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements. All tips are guaranteed to be anonymous.

Stoeser is considered a high-risk sex offender who poses a significant risk to the community for violent sexual offenses. In 2002, Stoeser was convicted of numerous sexual crimes, including sodomy, production of child pornography and possession of child pornography. He received a 13-year sentence and was released in 2011, but he was returned to prison six months later for violating his sex offender treatment instructions.

On October 24, 2013, Stoeser escaped from federal supervision in Austin; and warrants were issued for his arrest.

Stoeser is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs approximately 170 pounds. Stoeser has tattoos on both forearms, upper right arm and right leg.

Texas Crime Stoppers, which is funded by the Governor’s Criminal Justice Division, offers cash rewards to any person who provides information that leads to the arrest of one of the Texas 10 Most Wanted fugitives or sex offenders.